CIPIL Seminar/Webinar: 'It is Right to Repair; but is there a 'Right to Repair''

Title: 'It is Right to Repair; but is there a 'Right to Repair'?'

Speaker: Dr Poorna Mysoor, Fellow and Director of Studies in Law, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge 

Biography

Poorna was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, a JRF at the Queen’s College, Oxford, and an academic member at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. As a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford, she worked on the conceptual and doctrinal analogies that can be drawn from tangible property law, such as land law and personal property law, into copyright law to examine the extent to which this can assist copyright balance. During her early career fellowship, she was affiliated with Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia at Melbourne Law School, and E W Barker Centre for Law and Business at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, where she conducted research and delivered seminars as a Visiting Scholar.

Abstract

Breakdown of household goods forces consumers to discard them, leading to issues consumer expectations and environmental damage caused by the monumental waste. To deal with this, it is the right thing to do to make repair of these goods readily available. But does this mean that there is a ‘right’ to repair these goods? And, for our purposes, why should IP lawyers be concerned with this? The implementation of the Ecodesign Directive (2009/125/EC) in the UK this summer has created some buzz around a ‘right to repair’. This presentation looks back at the case law that have engaged with the right to repair and provides a context for these decisions with the new law. It examines the elusive nature of the ‘right to repair’ and queries what it takes to have a truly enforceable and readily accessible right to repair, and how IP rights could play a role.

Poorna will be live in LG18**, but also available online via the Zoom link below.

**please note that those wishing to come along to this event in person are advised to take a lateral flow test at least 24hrs prior to attendance to ensure that they do not have covid.  

Zoom registration:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_upy6A3NCT4KiFMcTw8bltg